The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

Forums were the heart of ancient Roman cities, serving as hubs for social activities, gatherings, and public speeches.

Archaeologists have unearthed several Roman buildings and the ruins of a forum in Spain which likely helped integrate local ...

Archaeologists found the pillar by chance during the summer excavation season in 2023 while they were searching for the ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Little over a century later, Parthia would fall, defeated not by Rome, but by the Persian rebel Ardashir. Ardashir would become the first Shahanshah ... the time of the Roman Empire, but ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor ... During the late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the vast empire into two ...

by the first century CE, Indian imports into Egypt were worth over a billion sesterces per annum, from which the tax authorities of the Roman Empire were creaming off no less than 270 million.

Rome in the first century AD - the powerful Roman Empire stretches across three continents. After a long period of civil conflict, Rome saw its governance pass from a republican system to one under ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

The wall, standing about one metre high and 16 metres long, revealed ancient architecture that pointed to large, public buildings dating from the High Roman Empire (1st to 5th century AD).